(Part 1 of 2)

In May of 2007, IL State Treasurer State Treasurer Alexi Giannoulias announced that the state's "Cash Dash" program is holding roughly 1.4 Billion dollars in Illinois unclaimed money. The only thing standing between the cash and its rightful owners is the knowledge that it's out there and the ability to locate it.

Sadly beyond just IL, state treasury departments across the nation keep on taking in more unclaimed money each year than they hand back to the people. Due to the fact that everyone believes in the old "if it's too good to be true" saying, most people do not believe that there are truly tens of billions of dollars that can be claimed nationwide. Even for those few who have learned the truth about unclaimed cash, the best way to find these monies eludes them most of the time.

The Prairie is State is one of just a few states that is holding over a billion dollars on its own, which means if you are a resident of IL then you have even greater odds of finding a claim in your name, especially after you consider that the state has less than 13 million people and there are more than 10 million names on the state's IL list.

Even though there are quite a few more, IL names the following as the most common types of missing money: abandoned savings and checking accounts, unpaid wages or commissions, stock, bonds, mutual funds, un-cashed dividends, customer deposits or overpayments, credit balances, refunds, money orders, travelers checks, paid-up life insurance policies, safe deposit box contents. People who have had or know someone who may have had one of these accounts at one time or another is encouraged to search often.

(to be continued)

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